Posted on April 7, 2008 - by Khaled

Rusted Engine Photoshop Tutorial

Yet another old Photoshop tutorial already posted on Kyscorp. This one is called: Rusted engine. During this tutorial you will learn some basic photo manipulation techniques in Adobe Photoshop. You can use those techniques in so many different ways to create different effects especially related to texturing with Photoshop.
It is an old tutorial that was created for Adobe Photoshop 7 but you can of course use Photoshop CS, CS2 or CS3. More old tutorials will be posted soon…

Well, this is a quick tutorial on how you can obtain a rusted engine, this will
help in understanding how you can use the blending effects to create the look
you are seeking for, I started with a photograph of an engine:

- Add some noise (Filter > Noise > Add Noise…) choose the following
settings : amount: 4%, distribution: Gaussian, check the monochromatic box

- Time to apply some texture to the engine, what is better than the photo of a
cracked wall , I used this texture :

- Resize to fit your engine’s photograph, here too add some noise

- Set the blending to ‘color burn’ (this is good in this case, in other cases it
will be better to set it to hard light, soft light, overlay…)

- You should have a result such as this photo below:

- You can use the ‘layer Mask’ and the eraser (low opacity (<50%) to remove some
parts that are not needed and to give more edges to your image

- Adjust your photo colors (Hue/saturation)

- You should finish with something grungy and rusted like this:

- Enjoy trying to create such effects with your own photos .